Automatic boiler-cleaning apparatus



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. E. A. NEWCOMB.

AUTOMATIC BOILER CLEANING APPARATUS.

No. 592,553. Patented Oct. 26,1897.

a i we M (No Mode l.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2. E. A. NEWOOMB. AUTOMATIC BOILER CLEANING APPARATUS.

No. 592,553. Patented Oct. 26,1897.

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lINTTn STATES ATnNT FFIQE.

EMERY A. NEWCOMB, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO HENRY BOEIIMER, OF BARRINGTON, ILLINOIS.

AUTOMATIC BOILER-CLEANING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 592,558, dated October 26, 1897.

Application tiled April 1, 1897. Serial No. 630,338. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: ner surface of the cylinder and the outer side Be it known that I, EMERY A. NEWcoMB, a of the hood. citizen of the United States, residing at Chi- The cylinderhcad 9 is connected by means 55 cago, county of Cook, State of Illinois, have of a pipe or passage-way 16 to the head of invented a new and useful Improvement in the precipitating-cylinder 8.

Automatic Boiler -Oleaning Apparatus, of A suitable water-pipe 17, provided with a which the following is a specification. cook 18, leads to the lower part of the boiler.

My invention has relation to an automatic Attached to that end of the pipe in the cyl- 6o boiler-cleaning apparatus. inder 8 is an adjustable hood 1n and a de in My objectis to provide a device of this charflector or guide 13, similar to those heretoacter which will overcome the objectionable fore described in connection with precipitatfeatures of the boiler-cleaners now in eXisting-cylinder 7, but whose effect, as will here ence and at the same time be durable and inafter appear, is the reverse of the one forefficient in use. merly alluded to.

15 Referring to the drawings, forming a por- The cylinders 7 and 8 are suitably contion of my specification, Figure 1 is a side nected at their lower ends to mud-drums 19 elevation of my device, showing the manner and 20, each of which is provided with a blowof its connection to the boiler. Fig. 2 isasecoff valve 21 and 22 of any well-known contional elevation of the boiler-cleaner proper. struction.

20 In the drawings, 1 indicates a boiler con- The operation of the device is as follows: structed in the usual manner. Tapped into The mud ant scale making material in the boiler at 2 is a water-pipe 3, provided at the water of the boiler passes with some of the one extremity with a perforated skimmer 4, water into the skimmer and through the pipe having upturned ends, as at 5. A pipe 6 con 6 to the precipitating-cylinder 7 by means of 25 nects the water-pipe 3 to one of the precipipipe 11, where it is spread over the deflector rating-cylinders 7 of the cleaning apparatus, 13, passing through the space between the which will now be described. deflector and the hood 14, when a portion of Generally speaking, the boiler-cleaner conthe mud and other heavy materials is presists of two or more precipitating-cylinders '7 cipitated from the deflector and falls to the 0 and 8, each provided with an upper head 9 bottom of the precipitating cylinder and and 9 and a lower head 10 and 10, approthence to the mud-drum 19. The water thus priately secured thereto. Passing through relieved of a portion of its material passes the head 9 of cylinder 7 is a water-pipe 11, upward between the hood and the cylinder, whose discharge end 12 is so arranged with as shown by the arrows, and out through 3 5 reference to a deflector 13, secured to the the cylinder -head 9 and by means of the lower end of the pipe 11, that water issuing passage 16 into the cylinder 8 through the from the pipe is spread over the surface opening in the cylinder-head 9, when it is thereof for a purpose to be hereinafter set again spread, this time over the outer sur- 0 out. It will be observed that in Fig. 2 I have face of the hood 14;" in the cylinder 8. The

o shown this deflector 13 as being of the genwater then passes downward between the eral contour of a double cone. I desire it to hood and the cylinder and is then relieved be understood, however, that the general of the remaining portion of heavy material, outline and contour of the deflector may be which falls to the bottom of thecylinde'r and changed at will without in the least departthence to the mud'drum. The water then 5 in g from the spirit of my invention. A hood passes upward between the hood and the dela is so arranged on the pipe 11 that it may fiector and, guided by the deflector 13, goes by means of a collar and the bolt 15 be adinto the pipe 17 and is then conveyed to the justed in any desired position thereon. It boiler. The mud and precipitates deposited ICO will be observed that the adjustable hood is in the drums are blown off when necessary.

50 so disposed that it surrounds the deflector in I claim--- such a manner as to leave a space between it 1. A boiler cleaner comprising two conand the deflector, as well as between the innected precipitating-cylinders,adouble coneshaped deflector arranged in each cylinder, a pipe located over-and inclosinga portion of one end of each deflector, a hood carried by each pipe and adapted to be moved thereon to adjust the hood with relation to the deflector, a mud-drum below each cylinder, an inlet-pipe connecting one of the cylinders with the boiler at the water-line, and an outlet-pipe connecting the other cylinder with the boiler below the water-line, substantially as described.

2. A boiler-cleaner comprising two connected precipitating-cylinders, a double coneshaped deflector arranged in each cylinder, a pipe located over and inclosin'g a portion of one end of each deflector, a hood carried by each pipe and adapted to be moved thereon to adjust the hood with relation to the deflector, a mud-drum below each cylinder, an

pipes mounted for adjustable movement thereon, and mud drums, provided with valves, in communication with the cylinders, substantially as described.

4. In an automatic boiler-cleaning apparatus, a precipitatingcylinder, an adjustable diamond-shaped deflector arranged therein, a funnel-shaped deflector inclosing the firstnamed deflector to its middle line, an inletpipe to which the second-named deflector is adjustably secured, the said pipe discharging upon the point of the diamond-shaped deflector, a second precipitating cylinder connecting with the first cylinder near its top, and containing also, adiamond-shaped deflector inclosed by a funnel-shaped deflector, mud-drums below and in communication with the cylinders, a pipe connecting the first cylinder and the boiler above the water-line, apipe connecting the second cylinder and the boiler below the water-line, and suitable valves on the boiler connecting pipes and the mud-drums, substantially as described. 1

EMERY A. NEWGOMB. Witnesses:

1-1. G. HUNSBERGER, J. I. KAFFUD. 4 

